A file photo.
Sanjaya Wilson Jayasekera.
In a communication to the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) on behalf of poet Ahnaf Jazeem, lawyers complain...
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The country is facing difficult challenges due to internal and external pressures which is increasing the level of frustration within society. ...
Lawyers for poet Ahnaf Jazeem have complained to the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) about TID officers listening and audio-recording the conversation between...
Image: Monk Ampitiye Sumana enjoys complete impunity for violent and hate speech against Tamils and Muslims.
“As the authorized body of the country to protect...
Image: LTTE members in a military-run rehabilitation camp (2016)
The regulation " the Prevention of Terrorism (De-radicalization from holding violent extremist religious ideology) Regulations No. 01...
Image: President receives the final report of the PCoI into the Easter Sunday attack.
Sri Lanka has seen a dramatic proliferation of commissions of inquiry,...
In a signed letter to Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya and other Supreme Court (SC) Justices forty Members of the parliamentary oppostion Samagi Jana Balawegaya...
The contents of the report of the commission of inquiry to the presidential political victimisation commissioners Messrs Upali Abeyratne, Chandra Jayathilaka and Chandra Fernando...
The JVP-led Lawyers for Democracy is planning to move the Court of Appeal against the report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Political...
Sri Lanka Brief Fact Sheet 01/2021.
Who’s Who in the “Independent Commissions”
20th Amendment to the constitution of Sri Lanka expanded the executive powers of...
According to the Cabinet decisions taken on 2015-01-21 Wijayadasa Rajapaksa was appointed as the chair of a committee to make recommendations for the introduction...
Fort Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage yesterday made a historic order holding that the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) does not suspend the application of the...
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) today informed Colombo Fort Magistrate that the Ministry of Defence had approved the detention and interrogation of Attorney-at-Law Hejaz...
The Attorney General’s Department (AG) has decided to drop the case against Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan in connection to the murder of former Parliamentarian...
The Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP—acting on behalf of Ahimsa Wickrematunge, the daughter of acclaimed Sri Lankan journalist...
Ahnaf Jazeem, a 25-year-old Sri Lankan poet, remains in jail without charge after being falsely accused, by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) on May...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his Minister of Justice who went charging into Parliament this week to pontificate or plead for judges to be protected...
Colombo, Dec 1 (PTI) Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed petitions filed by members of the Muslim community against the government's regulation that...
The power to issue detention orders for suspects arrested on terrorism-related activities should be given to a Deputy Inspector of Police instead of a...
1. Senior Superintendent of Police and former Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Director Shani Abeysekara was arrested on 31 July 2020, by the Colombo Crime...
The daughter of murdered journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge and four other family members of missing persons have requested the Attorney General to provide urgent medical...
Image: File photo of high Court judges in Sri Lanka.
Eyebrows are being raised over the 20th Amendment to the Constitution’s inclusion of provisions at...
Government MP Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa says that he will complain to Sri Lanka’s IGP against threats made to him by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (16),...
Fishers of the Mannar district were brutally attacked and humiliated by Sri-Lankan navy personnel in the mid-sea for three hours. This cruel incident occurred...
